02 or MWG Atom Life rom???

[dnlfortea]

Hello!

I've just bought my first pda (so I am new on that), a secondhand 02 Atom life in ebay, and I want to upgrade the rom.

Can someone tell me if there is any diference between these two officials roms: http://www.mwg.com/atom-life_wm6.aspx and http://www.myxda.com/xda-atom-life_wm6.aspx. Apparently, they seem the same...

If there are any differences, could you tell me the pros and cons? Are there any utilities/applications differences? Stability? Batteries issues?

Furthermore I want a fingertouchfriendly interface (don't like stylus). I am thinking about manila 2D, spb shell 2, wisdbar advance 3 or iphonzlike themes. I don't care too much about beautiful design or cool animations, more about something usefull and thrifty from the battery, ram, ressources consumption or compatibility point of vue.
What would you recommend me?

Actually are wisdwar advance or themes like iphonz slowing down pda performance or consuming extra ram?

THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!!

[blibble]

I would recommend you use the following ROM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=448074

and install M2D from here

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2761662&postcount=3885

(Don't bother with the additional files, they don't work on Atom Life)

The ROM is fast and reliable and is the setup I have passed on to my daughter now she is using my Atom Life. It has finger friendly touchflo (you need to enable it in Settings) and is very finger and user friendly.

Skins for M2D can be found here

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=451702

( I always preferred the MBarvian Diamond Skin from the top row of post 6. Perhaps that's why I have a Diamond now.:)

The MWG and O2 ROMS are stable but they're also full of rubbish that no one ever uses and hog memory.

I would also recommend the EZinput Keyboard suite from here

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=426281&highlight=ezinput

Don't forget that with this you need to install not only the keyboard suite but the right language pack for you. These are found in post 4

I hope this helps :D

[dnlfortea]

Thanks Blibble!!! I'm going to try your setup. It looks just fine for me!:)

[dnlfortea]

Hello!

I got the set up you propose and I experienced that battery runs faster than in o2 wm 6 rom, do you experience same thing? Could it be because of the rom or m2d? Are skins making slower performance or consuming battery? In that case I will stay with m2d with no skin... That's fine for me.

Furthermore, I can't watch youtube videos (I downloaded alldevices 19b M2D), do I need an especial application to watch flash multimedia?
Can actually someone recommend a free multimedia player to watch avi, flash and others formats?

I would apreciate a taskmanager to really close programs and not let them in Ram and making me go to standard taskmanager every 5 minutes to close them. Can someone recommend a good one? I thought M2D had one....

I don't find the settings window usefull, is there anyway to configure it and add/remove my preferred settings tools instead of the useless ones that appear?

Finally, is Sktools an usefull tool?

THANKS TO ALL IN ADVANCE!!!!
I have open ears for evey recommendation to optimize my device!!!

[dnlfortea]

I forgort it... This rom has deleted outlook mobile and java support? I don't find them...

[dnlfortea]

Hello all!

I try this rom with SPB Shell and Pocket Plus (wonderful taskmanager, file exploring and internet browser options) with animation disabled and it runs much better and I find it more functional, useful and customizable and no bugs, no issues... I didn't have time to compare battery life yet... But with manila it was 21-22 free ram and with SPB it is 23-24 free ram... I am also going to try sktools and sk shorcut manager for full performance and customization.

For multimedia player I am trying dvix player, core player and TCPMP...

I still don't know if I can run jad or jar aplications... I try a few and I think I can't...

Hope this information will be useful! For now I am very happy with this device and I order a 3200 mAh ultra capacity battery from worcell with sony japanese cells and just 4 mm thicker.